Peter Visscher
Dutch-born Australian geneticist
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Peter Martin Visscher is a Dutch-born Australian geneticist who is professor and chair of Quantitative Genetics at the University of Queensland. He is also a professorial research fellow at the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience and an affiliate professor at their Queensland Brain Institute.
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| Born | Peter Martin Visscher |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Known for | Quantitative genetics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Genetics[1] |
| Institutions | Queensland Institute of Medical Research University of Queensland University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Estimation of genetic parameters in dairy cattle using an animal model and implications for genetic improvement (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bill Hill[2] |
| Website | researchers |
Education
Visscher was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for research supervised by Bill Hill.[2]
Career and research
Visscher is known for his research aimed at investigating the genetic bases of complex human traits.[1][3][4] His research also focuses on studies in trait variation in populations. Visscher applied statistical analysis methods to quantify and dissect the contribution of DNA polymorphisms to variation.[5]
Honors and awards
Visscher is a senior principal research fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2010.[3] He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences[6] and fellow of and the Royal Society in 2018.[7][8] Also in 2018, he received a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council.[9]
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